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Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns
Hogwash McFly writes "The rules of the popular word game Scrabble are soon to allow proper nouns. Mattel, the maker of the game, hopes the changes made for a new edition, released this July, will 'add a new dimension' to Scrabble and 'introduce an element of popular culture into the game.' With this rule change, the company hopes to target younger fans and families, although they will continue to sell the traditional version where 'Beyonce' and 'Facebook' are not permitted words." Nobody is listening to my suggestion to penalize by one tile any player who has memorized every two-letter English word.
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, triple word score. Suck it.
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I'm waiting till they start to allow acronyms, so that we geeks can win with our multitude of TLAs.
"Mattel, the makers of the game, hope the changes made for a new edition, released this July, will "add a new dimension" to Scrabble and "dumb the game down so it can be enjoyed by a generation of near-illiterates". "
Yeah, there's appealing to the masses and then there's making it so your product no longer makes any sense. They've obvious chosen the Michael Bay approach.
Now considered part of online and texting culture, Mattel has decided to allow "words" such as LOL, OMG, and BFF.
To play this enhanced game, Mattel hopes to sell new copies of the game worldwide. Also slated for late 2010 is a version with exclamation points and other punctuation.
A Mattel representative presenting the new variants on the classic brand, "We have not decided if you earn points or lose points for excessive punctuation. LOL!!11!"
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
1) Change your name via Deed-Poll to the letters left in your rack.
2) Place letters on board
3) ???
4) Profit!
I'm going to start using qwyjibo as often as I can...
In related news, Parker Bros is releasing a new edition of RISK that uses a single coin instead of 5 dice. Heads you win, tails you lose.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
I'm going to start using qwyjibo as often as I can...
Why not, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Comedian: "I just flew in from Chicago... and boy are my arms tired! hahaha"
TheCycoONE: "Given the average mass of a resident of Chicago, and comparing it to the minuscule amount of lift that could be generated from human arms, even with vigorous flapping motions, we can extrapolate the following formulas to show the improbability of this occurrence..."
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
OH MY GOD!
Do you seriously mean to say that Americans are going to be the ones that don't have the dumbed-down version of Scrabble???
Some decades after a maternity ward Scrabble game:
"Sir, could please give your full name for the court?"
"Qfuhbix Triplewordscore Inyourface Jones"
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.